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noun • a witty satiric verse containing two rhymed couplets and mentioning a famous person | ||||
| 32% | 9 | A playfully humorous quatrain, often biographical | ||
noun • a witty satiric verse containing two rhymed couplets and mentioning a famous person | ||||
| 32% | 7 | Each quatrain has a specific rhyme scheme | ||
noun • A poem, similar to a villanelle, that comprises a series of quatrains, the second and fourth lines of each stanza repeated as the first and third lines of the next. | ||||
Type Of Light Verse Quatrain
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CLERIHEW which was last seen in the New York Times NYT crossword.
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CLERIHEW
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